public funding at Sciences Po Paris “must not be suspended”, believes Pierre Moscovici

Invited Monday on franceinfo, the first president of the Court of Auditors, who teaches in the Parisian establishment, reacts to what is being demanded by right-wing MEP François-Xavier Bellamy

Pierre Moscovici estimated Monday on franceinfo that public funding at Sciences Po Paris, where he teaches, “must not be suspended”. The day before, the head of the Republican list in the European elections, François-Xavier Bellamy, judged that the government should “stop public funding” at the higher education establishment, the scene of a blockade by pro-Palestinian students on Friday, lifted after an agreement with management.

For the right-wing MEP, “we cannot finance a school which has become the place of entryism, a mixture of leftism and Islamism, which legitimizes anti-Semitic remarks and acts of violence”. Pierre Moscovici, he “understands that young people are revolted by what is happening in Gaza” in view “unbearable images” from the Palestinian enclave.

“I understand that we are revolting, in the same way that I understand that others, including myself, are shocked, bruised, injured by the pogrom of October 7 that we tend to forget”, adds the former minister and socialist deputy, today head of the Court of Auditors. However, he “does not understand why we come to molest or hurt certain students”.

“We have to relearn how to talk to each other”

He refers to the occupation, in March, of an amphitheater by pro-Palestinian students, which resulted in an accusation of anti-Semitism from the Union of Jewish Students of France (UEJF), rejected by the pro-Gaza students. In this case, the prosecutor was contacted and an internal administrative investigation was launched.

“Anti-Semitism, since that’s what it’s about, it’s not an opinion, it’s a crime.”

Pierre Moscovici, first president of the Court of Auditors

on franceinfo

“I understand the students who are shocked by what is happening in Gaza. I understand the Jewish students, and others elsewhere, who have this pogrom in their hearts. However, we must relearn how to talk to each other without excesses. C “Maybe it’s a bit of a badass slogan, but I think that’s the key to the future.”he says.